15 May 1945
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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1945
Page
1
City health commissioners and sanitation officials met to review waste handling and enforcement of health standards. The session aimed to coordinate departments, maintain efficiency, and outline inspector duties while preparing for potential new health measures.
A fragmented entry shows early cotton market data with figures and codes such as July E272 2G and 21W8 2595. The readable parts reference price markers, daily highs and lows, and trade notation without a clear narrative or full item context.
A drivers license schedule for applicants, described as for Negroes, will be held at the county courthouse at 8 o'clock. The Alabama State Highway Patrol said the school is designed for Negroes but open to others, with a similar program planned later for white applicants. the report also notes broader wartime and historical war crimes references and a cotton market quote.
Local obituary notes the death of Leo Burkett, longtime city fireman. The piece lists numerous names and places associated with Burkett and mentions his service at the Fire Department, along with community figures and events tied to his life and funeral arrangements.
Allied forces claim progress across Mindanao and Samar with gains near Dara city and Jubawe while Australian troops extend inland at Wewak. Japanese resistance blunts as U S forces push along Villa Verde trail and toward Santa Fe with tanks and heavy artillery supporting the advance.
The Johnson Act and wartime debts loom as discussions mirror a possible meeting among the Big Three. Truman hints at a possible three-way peace plan talks, with Eden saying timing is unclear but not soon after the San Francesco conference. Homecoming at Carpera Church features Rev Marvin L South as guest speaker this Sunday.
A county-wide program honors 1,025 graduates with diplomas. The event recognizes supporters and teachers while noting the community's pride in the large cohort achieving educational milestones.
Fragmented dispatch describes Aachen Essen and Cologne amid Allied occupation. Army engineers restore bridges and rail while German industry sputters back to life. Calorie rations hover around 1150 daily as housing debris and rubble linger.
A garbled OCR item notes Torbert assigned to field in Dratt with unclear surrounding details. It mentions George Wo Tolpe and other faint names and a reference to a clerk of licee and a year, but the precise event and context are illegible. The fragment hints at an official action or assignment but contains no definite outcome or date.
Three Gtheers and three enlisted men from Napier Field, recently returned from combat, are placed on detachment for about thirty days to participate in bond selling activities of the Seventh War Loan Drive. Capt John W McNeil Jr and 1st Lts Warren R Newberg and Joseph F Fraser Jr, former P-5 pilots, lead a six man group including MSgt Gressle ck Rulfe and SSgts Gerald Karsusk who served as crew chief in combat. The six reported to the AAF Base Unit at Chicago Midway airport on May 16 for roughly thirty days.
PORTSMOUTH NHAPs- The surrender of three German submarines has been accepted by American naval forces based in New England, with U 805 near Portsmouth Navy Yard and U 1228 and U 879 surrendering in the North Atlantic. The fourth vessel was brought to Cape May New Jersey and its crew interned at Fort Miles Delaware. The boats were convoyed by First Naval District fleets to Portsmouth as Casco Bay served as the surrender point.
Private H D Trimm, a veteran from Northington General Hospital in Tuscaloosa, spoke at the Durham Rotary Club meeting. No other guests attended and no business was conducted.
Pupils of Cottonwood Elementary will present Tom Thumb Wedding this Thursday at eight pm. Public invited with admission prices of fifteen and twenty-five cents.
Mr and Mrs Julius Merritt of 609 S Appletree Street were notified by the Red Cross that their son, Staff Sergeant Charles R Merritt, has been liberated from a German prisoner of war camp and is reported all right. He was captured July 17 last year in Belgium and had been overseas since November 1943.
Mrs Ruth Beary director of the USY Travelers Aid will speak at the Houston County Council of Social Agencies monthly meeting at the Dothan Recreation Center on Thursday at noon. Beary returned in February from New Guinea where she spent the past three years as Red Cross worker.
A meeting of the Wiregrass FSA group opens Thursday at 8:3? at the Houston Memorial Library. Miss Virginia Coker leads the session with home supervisors from Houston Dale Geneva Henry and Covington counties to discuss food preparation and preservation.
B Wiggins of Toccoa Ga held secretary of the Christue Layman's Evangelia tion Associa tion will speak tomorrow night at Lafayette Street Methodist Church. He will be accompanied by the Rev Hoy Austin and George Williams, with the public invited.
Rabbi Ed mund A Landau longtime Albany Hebrew Congregation leader died in Albany Sunday and funeral services were held today with Rabbi Alfred Wolf officiating. Landau trained at Hebrew Union College and served nearly fifty years before retiring two years ago due to ill health.
Maj. Gen. William Kepner, 52, a Indiana native and former commander of the Highth Air Force's Second Bomber Division, succeeds Daglittle in the European theater. Kepner, a pioneer in balloon ascensions and zeppelin work, has served in the fighting forces since age 16.
The text outlines severe penalties for acts against Allied forces or German directives, including theft, sabotage, aiding the Nazi party, concealing Allied personnel, or evading curfews. Heavier sentences aside from death apply for rioting, bribery to Allied members, or spreading alarmist rumors. Death sentences require confirmation by General Eisenhower.
A meeting of two Houston County men in Hawaii was reported today. Manuel C Dickerson Fireman First Class husband of Mrs Wilma Dickerson of Ashford and Walter E Cosby Seaman Second Class husband of Mrs Margette Cosby of Webb spent several hours together in Hawaii. Dickerson had been overseas 15 months and Cosby two months.
A veteran Zénd Marine remnant led by Col. Mario Schneider presses toward Nana amid brutal fighting. Flamethrowers scorch northern Naha as Capt. John P. Langan’s unit enters the city. An underground tunnel system near Nabe hinders advances, with Japanese artillery repositioning. The push aims at finishing the campaign, despite heavy losses and hard conditions.
Russia’s Andrei Gromyko signals Kremlin push on trusteeship and regional defense. The United States and Britain near complete accord on both issues while France and China reportedly agree. A Russian proposal to group Big Five on decolonization faced US opposition. France gains a step toward permanent UN Security Council seat as talks on council structure advance.
Ramsey announced the Mighty Seventh drive aims to match last year’s campaigns, noting the Pacific war’s distance as the main obstacle. He urged more equipment and support, including B-28s, tanks, jeeps, rockets, and medical care for veterans, to fund the effort.
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